Sushi places in Utah
 

So I've tried Sushi YA in Provo, Sushi Express in Sandy, and Happy Sumo in Provo. Happy Sumo was by far the most commercial, but still decent. Sushi YA is far and pretty cheap (decent hand rolls for $5-$6). Anybody have any other places to recommend?

Yamato(?) in Orem. Good price, good sushi

Yeah? Whereabouts is it?

The wife and I started going to Sushi-ya about six months ago. At the time, the quality was quite good in spite of the non-Japanese (Chinese) chefs. But it has taken a major nose dive in the past two months. The raw fish is now paper thin and they are padding the rolls and the nigiri with absurd amounts of rice to fill you up quickly. It is a damn shame.

There is a place called Azuka near Shopko that has all you can eat for $16, but the quality is not good at all. There are a few OK rolls if you know what to order.

Benihana in SLC has the best all-you-can-eat deal. $26 per person. The chefs are all Japanese; one has worked there for 21 years. Top quality sushi.

If you are ever in Vegas, check out "The Sushi Club" out in Henderson. Archaea goes there every Friday and we are insanely jealous. Excellent quality and variety for only $19 per person.

What in general is good to order? I tried some of the regular rolls at Sushi-Ya and I was very impressed with the spicy tuna roll. I thought the tuna portions were fairly generous.

Sushi Express is excellent. It's a total dive looking place in a strip mall by a gas station. The fish is fresh and the prices are reasonable (no all-you-can-eat, though). I enjoyed the staff, too, which was mostly Japanese as far as I can tell. The original sushi chef is classically trained.

Any place around here you can get healthy portions of sashimi for decent price? I usually just go for tuna and salmon sashimi. I'm relegated to the fact that I can only get the good stuff when I travel to big city and it's on the company tab.

If you are talking about straight up sashimi (no rice), then I don't know. If you count nigiri then up until a month or two ago I would have said Sushi-ya. Now their raw fish is about a millimeter thick. Either that or we just keep going on the wrong nights.

We took our Japanese friends to Sushi-Ya right at the beginning of the poor-quality period. There was a japanese girl waiting the table that night and she told them (in Japanese) "This place really sucks. The sushi is awful. Don't ever go where they don't have a Japanese chef." (Etc.). She didn't know that I speak Japanese, too. It was kind of funny.

The best nigiri for the price (that I know of) is the Benihana sushi bar in SLC. Good variety and big slices.

Do you know why Sushi-Ya suddenly turned south? Change in staff?

A couple blocks north of the University Mall in Orem. On state street.

I haven't been there for quite a while. I wasn't terribly impressed but we have some friends that like it. We need to give it another try.

No, it is the same people. I suspect that they are just trying to squeeze out more profit. Personally, I would rather they raised the prices and maintained the quality.

Well, yeah, sushi's going to be pricey no matter what. If people wanted to fill up for cheap, that's why Carl's Jr. is down the street. *shudder* I'd rather have good sushi where they don't cut corners.

All of the specialty rolls used to be good. We liked the Jason roll (hand roll).

Thanks for the tip. I think I have heard of this before. The reviews are all good:

http://utah.citysearch.com/profile/1...i_express.html

Amen, Sister.

I really like their rose roll and spider roll; I think I had their tornado roll last time I was there. Pretty much everything I've tried has been good. It's always jam-packed full of Japanese people, so that might be a bit of a testament to its merits.

I've never eaten sushi. If I have, I'm not aware of having done so.

What would you sushi eaters recommend for someone like me who believes that raw fish is to be used only for bait?

Tempura rolls aren't a bad way to start. The fish has been fried, so it's cooked and crunchy but still has lots of flavor. For the truly unadventurous, there is always the California roll that has imitation crab in it... not even real fish. ;)

I've had imitation crab. I much prefer real crab.

I'll have to try your suggestion sometime. I love fish, if it's cooked. Bait, on the other hand....

I always get a kick out of people that love sushi and then start ordering rolls. A california roll! A dragon roll! a spicy tuna roll!

Sushi in a landlocked area....yum.

Ichiban, Takashi, and Ginza in Salt Lake are all good. I hate Happy Sumo. To me it's an overpriced Demae.

It all tastes like shit.

I actually think the California roll is a good one for a beginner, especially if you can get it with real crab. It's got crunch, a creamy/buttery component, and the crab. Actually, some people have bigger problems getting past the nori wrapping than they do eating the fish.

Mike came close to traumatizing our 3-year old the other day. Our son was showing some interest in the salmon roe sushi that was on the plate. Thinking he might actually try eating it, I picked up on of the fish eggs and gave it to him to exam. He got very exciting, jabbering away, and making the sign for fish. When Mike picked up the sushi and popped it in his mouth, our son let out a bloody scream of horror. I realized too late that he thought Daddy had eaten Nemo, the character from his favorite movie.

The wife and I drove to Sandy last Saturday and tried this place out. We weren't overly impressed. The salad was straight out of a bag and soggy. And my soda came in a 12-oz. can. Nevertheless, we looked forward to the sushi. It was OK. We have had worse, but we have had better also. In the end, the tab came to $44 plus tip. If I lived in the neighborhood I would go there, but I don't know if it is worth the drive.

BTW, we tried a new place in the Apline/Lehi/AF area that you should check out. It is called Yapono (Yapona?) and it is accross the street to the south of Costco. Pricey, but excellent quality.

You need to try Won Won Wok in Saratoga Springs/Lehi, out on lehi main street next to Smiths. I dont like Sushi but everyone in my neighborhood raves about it.

I hate you all. Sushi sounds so good right now and it will be another 6 1/2 months before I can eat it.

Cheer up. You can always get a $5.99 t-bone at the Waffle House. Bwahahahahaha.....

Has anyone been to Kyoto?

Apparently there are two different ones with the same name.

I'm talking about this one:

http://wcities.com/en/record/24,40448/67/record.html

"top 10 restaurant in Utah"

I haven't been there in many years, so it may just be nostalgia. For example, when I was at BYU, I liked Demae. Then after living in Houston for a bit, I went back to Demae and almost threw up.

Kyoto specializes in more of your traditional Japanese dishes, has sushi bar. Great tempura, good memories of sukiyaki.

I've been to the city, but not the restaurant. Looks interesting. I will check it out.

Demae is Japanese comfort food (domburi, katsudon, curry rice, etc.). Cheap, authentic, home-style dishes, but not gourmet. And their sushi is not very good.

Demae's food didn't change from when they were in a snowcone stand to when they opened as a sit-down restaurant. At the very least, they could cook the rice properly.

Also, about Kyoto, the waitresses are all Japanese and speak Japanese. And the chefs/cooks are all Japanese. That is usually an excellent sign when you are at a Japanese restaurant. Mexican cooks are usually a bad, bad sign. Koreans are a bad sign as well. Whities are bad, bad, bad.

Amen, brother.

My family was in town over New Year's, and we had our annual sashimi/sushi dinner at our home. I had heard about a Japanese grocery store that had excellent fresh fish (30 miles away, but not too bad) so we stocked up on tuna, mackerel, yellowtail, and salmon. They also had great barbecued eel. Coming from Portland, OR, my parents experienced a little bit of sticker shock at the prices, but it still came out much cheaper than it would have cost to feed 7 adults at a sushi restaurant.

We made some veggie makizushi, but otherwise, everyone took squares of nori, filled them with as much or as little sushi rice and sashimi as they liked, and it was delicious.

Marsupial, I'll send you some wasabi peas to tide you over until that baby is born.

I usually don't care too much for salmon sashimi, but this was an exception. The salmon was excellent.

Exactly. You haven't lived 'til you've visited Oklahoma and tried catfish sushi.

Two words: bottom feeder.

Ah yes. Te-maki zushi. That's how we do it at home.

So you think the tuna sashimi you eat in LA is caught at the end of the dock?

http://atypicaljoe.com/index.php?/si...s_global_good/

The blog seems to pointing out that japanese are importing their fish and that sushi adapts to local ingredients.

Not sure I understand the weblink as it pertains to the question.

Or are you the gay New Yorker living in the South? I thought you were married?

The point is that your sushi in LA may be no fresher than my sushi in Dallas, given that both have major airports (where the tuna is picked up).

You do not speak little gay New Yorker very fluently.

The little gay New Yorker guy only speaks to buying fish in Japan. He makes no mention of fishing in other parts of the world.

Also, he doesnt say that other seaports are not doing their own fishing. Did i miss something? Is there a portion of the article that hints at the notion that Southern California has stopped fishing?

The only thing the article suggests is that Japan has overfished its tuna and now imports it from all over.

I will concede blue bell ice cream, which is obviously superior in every sense. But you dont go to landlocked areas for better fish. Even little gay new yorkers know that.

When I went to the after party for the Espy awards they served some sushi. Mostly just rolls, but there were also pieces of raw tuna there. Some basketball player behind me in line didn't know what it was, and asked me. When I told him he looked completely repulsed, and was appalled that I had actually put two pieces of it on my plate. It was really good Tuna.

Ichiban and Takashi are the best two sushi places in Utah.